ASERTTI Bioenergy Committee Co-Chairs

Committee Resources

ASERTTI Webinar on Biofuel Breakthroughs

On Monday, November 19, 2012, ASERTTI hosted a webinar on
Crops for Cars: Biofuel Breakthroughs for the Transportation Sector, as
part of its Emerging Technologies Webinar series. During the webinar, Dr.
Heike Sederoff, Assistant Professor of Plant Sensory Genomics and Metabolic
Engineering of Microalgae at North Carolina State University, discussed
research efforts in genetically modifying the oil-crop plant Camelina sativa
to produce high quantities of both modified oils and terpenes. Dr. Vic Knauf,
Chief Scientific Officer at Arcadia Biosciences, presented on their work to
develop plants that produce vegetable oil in their leaves and stems rather
than in seeds; and Dr. Christer Jansson, Bioenergy Program Lead at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), highlighted LBNL’s efforts to
modify tobacco to enable it to directly produce fuel molecules in its leaves
for use as a biofuel.

ASERTTI Moderates Panel at Biomass 2012

Working with partners at the DOE Biomass Program, ASERTTI’s Executive
Director David Terry moderated a state focused bioenergy panel on July 10,
2012 in Washington, D.C. The panel, entitled "Bioenergy Coast-to-Coast:
State Strategies for Accelerating Advanced Biofuels,” was part of the
Biomass Program’s fifth annual conference, Biomass 2012: Confronting
Challenges, Creating Opportunities – Sustaining a Commitment to Bioenergy.
Panel presentations, that included the Gas Technology Institute (GTI), an
ASERTTI member organization, addressed key topics like expanding the
available feedstocks for biofuels beyond corn; the need for state policy to
keep pace with new bioproducts; the formation of stakeholder clusters for
regional collaboration; examples of stable policy with continuity for
advancing bioenergy; and the status of companies on the brink of producing
fuels for the market.

ARPA-E Presents to ASERTTI Executive Committee

In an effort to increase collaboration between the Advanced Research
Projects Agency -- Energy (ARPA-E) and ASERTTI Members, Jonathan Burbaum,
Program Director at ARPA-E, was invited to deliver a presentation at the
ASERTTI’s January 2012 Executive Committee meeting on some of the
transformative research and development ARPA-E is pursuing with regard to
bioenergy. Dr. Burbaum’s presentation can be
viewed here.

Summary of State Biofuel Incentives

In cooperation with the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL),
ASERTTI has prepared a summary of State Incentives for Biofuel Production
and Use.
Click here to access the summary.

Under the ASERTTI Digester Performance Partnership project, participating
members and U.S. EPA are working to achieve a generally accepted methodology
for assessing the performance and financial viability of anaerobic
digesters, allowing livestock producers, environmental officials, and public
and private investors to make fully informed decisions. Read More >>